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Graham Bett

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European. Labour.🌹Chair Melton Mowbray Town Estate. Emeritus Headteacher. Lincoln born. 'An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics' - Plutarch

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · Nov 17

OK. I've finally got round to joining @bsky.app . But where's Nathan W Pyle ??

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 14h

Incredibly difficult and genuinely complicated problems. No easy answers.

East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15h

Norfolk’s coast is crumbling. As erosion accelerates, local authorities face impossible choices: protect a few homes short-term at great cost, or accept the sea’s advance.

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control.

East Anglia Bylines

Greater Anglia joins public ownership after record year of performance

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 1d

Oh!
You'll meet loads of oldies....
And we're hilariously funny 😁

"Whatever ...." 😉

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

My kids gave me enough material to write TV comedy. Where will the jokes come from now they’ve left? | Helen Serafinowicz

The inspirations for my BBC TV show have packed up and gone to uni, leaving me to rattle around on my own, says writer and television producer Helen Serafinowicz

www.theguardian.com

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect Labour's plan to #RejoinEU is to
🇪🇺 prepare the electorate for change
🇪🇺 avoid giving Reform the debate it wants
🇪🇺 rebuild relationships with EU Leaders who will ultimately decide
🇪🇺 go for it in a second term Labour Government

All four [and more] are necessary.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer blaming #Brexit for tax rises may be accurate but when only 37% of a now disproportionately dead electorate voted for it almost 10 yrs ago, based on undeliverable lies, the questions are why should the rest of us stomach it & where is Labour’s plan to change that? archive.ph/2025.10.10-2...

archive.ph

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to be boringly serious, but isn't this a sign of a High Street in distress?
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 2d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! 🌍

Every year, migratory birds take on seriously epic journeys.

From our UK coasts and wetlands, to the forests of West Africa, we’re working to protect and restore the habitats they rely on along their routes.

Read more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 2d

Ad-Vance knowledge of even more trouble to come?

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2d

Not sure who needs to hear this but your “physical” isn’t “annual” if you need it twice in six months.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 3d

I blame his teachers.....
#Farage

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 2d

"You were beaten by a foreign woman - some kinda Venezuelan Opposition Leader."
#Nobel

Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 3d

I blame his teachers.....
#Farage

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 4d

#FindsFriday
Chalcolithic/Bronze Age 'beaker' pot from Argyll - dating from c2300-2000 BCE.

Someone took such care to make this vessel look beautiful.

(Kilmartin Museum)

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see Ed Davey helping out in Portland...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 4d

The Tories have today offered me a tax cut of over £20,000 in the event I need to move house and buy another one at a similar value.

Without really explaining how they would pay for it.

But promising some excessive and damaging cuts to services.

I reject this plan.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 5d

Gently encouraging......
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 5d

The tide is turning. Just 13 per cent of young people think Brexit was right - and fewer than one in five under 50 agree. A clear majority of Britons now believe leaving the EU was a mistake.

Attacks on migrants will not return Tories to power, Lord Heseltine warns Badenoch

Lord Heseltine warning comes as Robert Jenrick is caught up in a racism row

www.independent.co.uk

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 5d

Andy Street is spot on. Birmingham is a brilliant city. Vibrant, diverse, wonderful.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

#Newsnight

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 5d

Is a quorum required for the Conservative Party Conference?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

As Robert Jenrick accuses David Lammy of having a "chequered past", here's a quick reminder of Jenrick's

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Allan Paterson #FBPE FB99% #UBI #YNWA 🐟 @allangpaterson.bsky.social · 6d

Who could have predicted that other nations would save us? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History @brianwernham.bsky.social · 6d

With their usual amount of careful planning and checking the Conservatives launch their new merchandise...

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 7d

There are many jobs where you have to deal with people you would prefer not to. I've certainly had experience of that. And I saw it as going the extra mile for the good of others, not pandering to the problem people.

Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 7d

I was asking why you would give up?

Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 7d

Why?